EAA 172 RE-ROOFING PARTY

April 14, 2012WORK RESCHEDULED

After breakfast on Saturday, April 14 there will be an EAA 172 Re-Roofing Party (rescheduled from March 24 & 31) We will be putting a new roof on the club house. Steve Thompson will be leading the effort, but we need a lot of volunteers to make this easy and short work. If we have extra people there are other clean up items that can be taken care of. Please bring any appropriate tools that you may have to help put on a new roof on the clubhouse, as well as repair some roofing support boards for the clubhouse. Refreshments and lunch will be provided.We appreciate your support! EAA 172 Board Members

JOYCE NEWMANSome club members may not know that Joyce Ann Newman, Al Newman, Sr.’s wife, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in early March. Joyce was at our January and February meetings and helped out, as she usually did, in the meal preparations. She also enjoyed her husband Al’s presentation about his activities in World War II at the February 11th meeting. Word was received in March that on March 9th she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and was admitted to MCG on Monday, March 12th. After some tests and procedures the doctors gave her a negative prognosis and she was moved home from the hospital with a hospital bed and they had called in Hospice Care. As of April 4th the word received from the family is that she has terminal pancreatic cancer, and is being kept pain free with hospice care in the home. Freeman Newman, her son, wrote, “She still recognizes our voices when we speak to her. Please keep Dad in your thoughts and prayers.”Their address is: Alfred Newman, Sr., 209 Sherwood Dr., Augusta, GA 30909

Joyce at the club 2010 Christmas Party.

No, it’s not the EAA 172 clubhouse. Our aerospouses arefar more attractive than the farmospouses in the photo!It’s a 1916 photo of a barn re-roofing party. Hope wecan get as many workers as they had, at our re-roofingparty.

Trailer with building materials ready for theclubhouse work.

OTHER AIRCRAFT FLOWN BY CHARLES LEWISAS WELL AS THE CARRIERS HE WAS ON

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Grumman A-6 IntruderThe Grumman A-6 Intruder was an American, twin jet-engine, mid-wing attack aircraft built by Grumman Aerospace. In

service with the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps between 1963 and 1997, the Intruder was designed as an all-weather medium attack aircraft to replace the piston-engined A-1 Skyraider. The A-6E was the definitive attack version of the Intruder with vastly upgraded navigation and attack systems, introduced in 1970 and first deployed on 9 December 1971. The earlier separate search and track (fire control) radars of the A-6A/B/C were replaced by a single Norden AN/APQ-148 multi-mode radar, and onboard computers with a more sophisticated (and generally more reliable) IC based system, as opposed to the A-6A's DIANE discrete transistor-based technology. A new AN/ASN-92 inertial navigation system

was added, along with the CAINS (Carrier Aircraft Intertial Navigation System), for greater navigation accuracy.

USS Saratoga

USS Saratoga (CV/CVA/CVB-60), was one of four Forrestal- class supercarriers built for the US Navy in the 1950s. Saratoga was the sixth US Navy ship, and the second aircraft carrier, to be named for the Battle of Saratoga in the American Revolutionary War.

Commissioned in 1956, she spent most of her career in the Mediterranean, but also participated in the Vietnam War. One of her last operational duties was to participate in Operation Desert Storm. Saratoga was decommissioned in 1994, and is currently stored in Newport, Rhode Island. Multiple unsuccessful attempts have been made to

preserve her as a museum ship, and she is currently slated for disposal.

USS RangerThe seventh USS Ranger (CV/CVA-61) is one of four Forrestal-class supercarriers built for the US Navy in the 1950s. Commissioned in 1957, she served extensively in the Pacific, especially the Vietnam War, for which she earned 13 battle stars. Near the end of her career she also served in the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf. She was decommissioned in 1993, and is being stored at Bremerton, Washington. A foundation in Oregon is currently trying to acquire her as a museum, to be berthed on the Columbia River at Fairview, Oregon.

Ranger had the distinction of being the first US carrier built from the very beginning as an angled deck ship. She appeared on television in The Six Million Dollar Man, Baa Baa Black Sheep and in the films Top Gun, Star Trek IV, The Final Countdown, and Flight of the Intruder.

and Charles’ favorite carrier: the USS Nimitz

USS Nimitz (CVN-68) is a supercarrier in the United States Navy, the lead ship of her class. She is one of the largest warships in the world. She was laid down, launched and commissioned as CVAN-68 but was redesignated CVN 68 (nuclear-powered multimission aircraft carrier) on 30 June 1975 as part of the fleet realignment of that year. The ship was named for World War II Pacific fleet commander Chester W. Nimitz, who was the Navy’s last fleet admiral.

Nimitz was homeported at Naval Station Norfolk until 1987, when she was relocated to Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Washington. Following her Refueling and Complex

Overhaul in 2001, her homeport was changed to NAS North Island in San Diego, California. Nimitz’s home port was changed to Everett, Washington, in 2010. This move is expected to save the Navy $100 million.